What's happening with Windows Phone updates in 2011 — I can finally reveal a number of details about the first Windows Phone 7 update, a future major update, and how Microsoft intends to roll out updates generally. It's not necessarily great news. But here's what's happening.

Steve Ballmer to tease Windows 8 at CES keynote — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is set to take to the stage tomorrow for the opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. — Ballmer will detail a number of new announcements related to Windows Phone, Xbox and Windows.

Sure, RSS Is Dead — Just Like the Web Is Dead — A brush fire has been swirling through the blogosphere of late over whether RSS is dead, dying, or possibly severely injured and in need of assistance. It seems to have started with a post from UK-based web designer Kroc Camen that got picked up by Hacker News and re-tweeted a lot.

iPad 2 case shows up at CES, packing a mockup iPad 2 — We've been seeing supposed iPad 2 cases for about a month now, all of them with the same telltale cutouts: a camera hole in the back, a camera hole in the front, and a big ol' speaker hole. Today's find beats them all, however …

Sales Are At A Trickle On Google's Chrome Web Store — In December, after months of anticipation and discussions with third-party developers, Google finally unveiled the Chrome Web Store — an online portal that lets users purchase and ‘install’ web applications like TweetDeck, MOG, and hundreds of others.

Why Groupon Isn't in Australia — Since Groupon started in 2008, we've grown from one to thirty-seven countries. Australia, however, remains conspicuously absent from our lineup. Australian customers and press have been asking why we still haven't formally launched …

HTC leaks AT&T's 4G hand...wait, what AT&T 4G? — HTC has jumped the gun in a pretty big way. — Android Central posts an HTC ad which appears in this month's Rolling Stone where HTC brags about being the first 4G phone on each of the four major US networks.

Apache web server hit a home run in 2010 — The World Wide Web would be nothing without web servers, and Apache has been king of that hill for a long time now. Although its market share has been slipping a bit in recent years, Apache came back with a vengeance in 2010.

US Tablet Sales Will More Than Double This Year — Today Forrester published its revised US consumer tablet forecast, updating its previous forecast from June 2010. When Apple's iPad first debuted, we saw the device as a game-changer but were too conservative with our forecast.

Kindle for Windows Phone 7 goes live — We knew it was coming... and you know what happens to things you know are coming? They eventually come. Case in point: Amazon's Kindle app for Windows Phone 7, first teased in October and now available to anyone with a WP7 device and a desire to read stuff.

USA Today Buys Tech Products Site Network Reviewed.com — Gannett (NYSE: GCI) USA Today has acquired Reviewed.com, a group of 12 product-review websites. The site provides in-depth, long takes on digital cameras, camcorders and high def televisions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Mac App Store - Sneak Peak — In two days, the Mac App Store will open its gates. — While there is the usual amount of speculation out there on technicalities and its potential overall success, it seems widely unclear what will happen on Opening Day. — So last week I sent …

Online Experimenting — We take a peek inside Google Labs, the online giant's incubator for the next great idea. — Hardly anyone outside the company even knows it, but every December, an informal, almost comical award ceremony is held at Google's headquarters in Mountain View …

‘Hurt Locker’ lawyers continue antipiracy fight — Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, the law firm that has filed copyright complaints against thousands of accused illegal file sharers on behalf of independent filmmakers this year, is getting some important help. — DGW, which also operates under …

Google CFO Hints at Return to China — Google hinted Monday that it wants to return to China after it controversially quit the country last year after a dispute over censorship. — Patrick Pichette, Google's chief financial officer, told the paper that withdrawing Google from China …

American Airlines in Fee Battle With Web Agencies — A traveler searching two of the four largest online travel agencies, Orbitz and Expedia, is not going to find any listings for American Airlines flights — at least for the moment. — That is because American is in a standoff over the fees …